St. Paul daily globe., 1887-05-15
little excuse remains for the Toronto
people to create disturbance. On leav-
ing Quebec last evening

until tllls morning, 4 ubiquitous indl-
vldual has been i'll sight all the time.
He took the same boat, the same train,
staying at the same hotel, and when the
visit to the country was decided upon
he hired q coupe all alone and got as
near as possible to the carriage where
the O'Brien party was. AS the vessel
steamed out from Richelieu pier, Que
bee, the mysterious and ubiquitous man
was discovered and the crowds ashore
created tlimult by threatening to
throw him off the boat. Mr.. O'Brien
knew nothing Of this. The angry
crowd was calmed by j. b. Lane
and ii. C. Cleran, officers of
tue Montreal National league, and the
steamer passed out of the harbor in
peace. That an immediate effect has
been produced by Nh. O'Brien's visit is
no longer doubted. For instance, Lord
LansdOWne,w who is accustomed to spend
some time in the citadel at Quebec AT
this season of the year, will not go there
this year,so bitter is the feeling aroused
against him by Mr. O'Brien's recital of
his dOlngS as a landlord in Ireland. AS
Lord LansdowDe will not be in Toronto
when Mr.. O'Brien arrives, but at Otta-
wa, where demonstration is OrganiZ-
ing in his honor, some think that any
trouble, If trouble there is, will take
place Oh the same day.
AN INTERVIEW.
Perhaps the exact situation may best
be aScertained from O'Brien himself,
who spoke to an Associated Press rep
reSentative this evening. as follows:
up to the present the result has more
than answered my most sanguine eX-
pectations. From end to end of this
province of Quebec, although, of course,
L have encountered good many oppo-
nentS, L have not experienced the
slightest mark of disrespect not to say
violence. | have met some who doubted
the adviSability of our visit, but | have
not met a single one who, having heard
us, was not convinced that we had the
for the course we have taken. l have
been simply amazed at the extent to
which the prejudice so unScrupulouSly
aroused against us has been dissipated
in the course of the briefeSt intercourse
with the people. The fact is, of course,
due not to ourselves. but to the abso-
lutely unanSwerable strength of our in
dictment. 1t is too much to say,
some threats to the contrary notwith-
standing, that we challenge the opinion
of the people of the province of Ontario
with confidence. Lord LanSdowne is
likely to investigate for himself public
opinion OF his conduct in the province
of Quebec: In Montreal l find that
within the last two days the condemna-
ton of Lord Lansdowne has become
greatly intensified, and is showing itself
in quarters from which | least expected
it. AS for our experience in Quebec, it
was so uniformly satisfactory that, al
though l had the pleasure of making
the acquaintance of a very large num-
Der of the citizens, of all grades and ma
tionalitieS, | can honestly say | did not
hear a single expression favorable to
Lord LanSdOwne, while his opponents
who attended our demonstration were
free in their Acknowledgements that the
statements, if unrebutted, were simply
appalling. This result is, think, thor
Oughly secured, that the Canadian peO-
pie recognize that case has been made
which
MUST BE ANSWERED.
Not single one of Lord Lansdowne's
champions in the press has attempted
to tackle the facts of the controversy,
although Lord Lansdowne many weeks
ago, through his aide-de-camp, supplied
them with his version of the transaction
-.
neither of which will bear the light of
robust public criticism for a moment.
The first is that, as governor general,
Lord LanSdoWne is sublimated above
all criticism from the people whom he
rules and who pay him. This is doc
trine so opposed to British constitu-
tional law that | can scarcely imagine
how any person instructed in ihe rudi-
ments of English constitutional theory,
can for moment seriously PROFOUND it.
The queens civil list is the one item
for expenditure which the repre-
sentatives of the people are
not entitled and bound to criticise
to their constituents. The fact that the
Canadian parliament is called upon to
vote money for any purpose entities
them and the Canadian people to discuss
with the most absolute freedom the
purposes to which it is to be put. Their
right to do so is in fact the A B c. of
constitutional government. Much more
delicate topics than Lord LanSdowne's
conduct in Ireland are constantly dis
cussed as a matter of right and duty in
the imperial house of commons. With
experience of the expenses of royal pal
aces and even of the marriage dOwries
which the queen asks for her children,
an English constitutional lawyer would
smile at the suggestion that when act
ing as the mouthpiece of the state the
governor general, paid by the Canadian
people, can do no wrong, although it is
shown beyond possibility of denial that
he is
USING CANADIAN MONEY
for the preparation of an injustice
which the Canadian parliament has
again and again denounced. Lans-
dOwne'S other plea is still more waShy
one, namely, that his mouth is closed
against the defense. His own action
and that of his agent utterly confute it.
He was himself the first to resort to
newspaper controversy on the subject,
before had an opportunity, and the
first to make an eXparte and diSingenu-
Gus statement of his side of the case be-
fore i! had any opportunity of answer
ing him. He, through his aidede-camp
in Ottawa, and through his agent in Ire
land, has made himself literally heard
in his own defense in the newspapers
on both sides of the Atlantic. 1t is
therefore prepoSterouS for him to close
his door against the newspaper inter-
viewer now when an adequate reply-if
he can make One-wOuld be most crush
ing. We have not dealt with the
subject in a declamatory way, but
by plain array of facts. If they can
be disputed our position would be more
seriously damnified than by thousand
attacks with violence of the character
with which we are threatened at To-
rant0 and Kingston. If, on the con-
trary, Lord Lansdowne allows Judgment
to go by default, it will now be impossi-
BILE for him to conceal from the Cana
dian public that it is because there is
absolutely no denying the horrifying
character of his proceedings in Ireland"
IF you are refused permission to APP
pear in Toronto and Ottawa what then?"
"Well, | shall certainly exercise my
legal right, and visit and speak at those
places"
Can they prevent you?'
''There is nothing in the law of Can
ada to prevent me carrying out nv in
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